How to Decide Before Pressure Decides for You

Wars, an ever-present danger, economic crises, currency devaluation, and health problems, together with the loss of both my parents. 

Believe me, none of this was among the things I had planned. 

I brought up my three daughters mostly by myself and continued with my studies, kept working, and kept changing who I was, all without having any real support system, reliable national insurance, or the luxury of waiting for our lives to get easier. 

I never chose the thing that happened to me. But I always had one choice: 

I have the possibility of being a victim of the situation, or I can learn to cope with the storm better than anyone else. 

After reinventing myself more than ten times, I understood something crucial: 

The reason you remain stuck is not the difficulty but the way you make your decisions. 

In this honest, powerful and surprisingly funny keynote, I explain the lessons that took decades of adversity to teach me, using real stories and my UNSTUCK Decision Framework, I show the factors which influence our decisions when the stakes are high and certainty is no longer available, therefore, you do not need to wait for decades before changing the way you decide. 

Remember: You can’t always control what happens to you.

But you can decide whether it keeps you stuck or becomes the reason you move forward.

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